Too Good Not to Share
Over at Vox Day’s website, during a discussion about how often various races and sexes are represented in fiction, one reader with the bland yet optical name of Genericviews had this to say:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-invisible-voxemort.html?showComment=1423254020647#c321143882693502766
As a middle aged white guy who can’t turn into a were-creature, isn’t wealthy, isn’t a supergenius, isn’t descended from the royal family of an ancient alien empire, can’t perform magic, isn’t in command of hundreds of people, pays my bills on time, and never gets attacked by terrorists so I can shoot back…. I feel grossly under-represented by characters in fiction. THAT’S WHY I READ IT. Real life is boring.
Amen.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
